Book Lover’s Book Club – Looking for Alaska: Last Words – Looking for Alaska: Last Words
Anyone who has read John Green’s Looking for Alaska knows that last words play a major roll.
I thought it would be cool if I compiled all the last words from the novel into a list!
It is organized by page number according to my paperback copy!
Enjoy!
1. Francois Rabelais: “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” –Page 5
2. Henrik Ibsen: “He’d been sick for awile and his nurse said to him, ‘You seem to be feeling better this morning,’ and Ibsen looked at her and said, ‘On the contrary,’ and then he died.” –
Page 11
3. JFK: “Someone said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,’ and then he said, ‘That’s obvious,’ and then he got shot.” –Page 18
4. Simon Bolivar: “Damn it,” he sighed. “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” –Page 19
5. Leo Tolstoy: “The truth is…I care a great deal…what they…” – Page 36
6. Millard Fillmore: “When Fillmore was dying, he was super hungry. But his doctor was trying to starve his fever or whatever. Fillmore wouldn’t shut up about wanting to eat, though, so finally the doctor gave him a tiny teaspoon of soup. And all sarcastic, Fillmore said, “The nourishment is palatable.” – Page 48
7. General Albert Sidney Johnston: “when asked if he was injured, answered, “Yes, and I fear seriously.” – Page 71
8. Robert E. Lee: “Strike the tent!” –Page 71
9. Ulysses S. Grant: “Water.” – Page 71
10. William McKinley: “He lived for several days after he was shot, and toward the end, his wife started crying and screaming. “I want to go, too! I want to go, too!” and with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: “We are all going.” – Page 120
11. Che Guevara: “Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, “Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.” –Page 128
12. General Sedgwick: “They couldn’t hit an elephant from this dis—“ – Page 128
13. Edgar Allen Poe: “Lord help my poor soul.” – Page 130
14. Henry Ward Breecher: “Now comes the mystery.”—Page 142
15. Dylan Thomas: “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that’s a record.” –Page 142
16. Eugene O’Neill: “Born in a hotel room, and—God damn it—died in a hotel room.” –Page 142
17. Princess Diana: “Oh God. What’s happened?”—Page 142
18. James Dean: “They’ve got to see us.” –Page 142
19. Meriwether Lewis: “I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.” – Page 151
20. Sufi: “The poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, “Do you know how you’re going to die.” And the Sufi said, “I do.”
“How?” asked the merchant.
And the Sufi lay down, crossed his arms, said, “Like this,” and died, whereupon the merchant promptly gave up his store to live a life of poverty in pursuit of the kind of spiritual wealth the dead Sufi had acquired.” –Page 173
21. Thomas Edison: “It’s very beautiful over there.” – Page 221
